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News 04 June 2006
A Royal Find in Valley of the Kings
Archaeologists
have uncovered the first Intact tomb on the Nile's West Bank in 84 years
in Egypt's Valley of the Kings,
In February, the team discovered the tomb — designated KV 63 —
just feet away from the tomb of ancient Egypt's young celebrity pharaoh
Tutankhamen.
Since then, the team has unearthed a trove of seven wooden coffins, about
20 storage jars, and more than a few oddities that are still being figured
out.
All of this, even though many experts have argued that the
Valley of the Kings — the elaborate final resting places of the
ancient society's kings and queens — has nothing left to offer archaeology
and Egyptology.
"When you least expect it sometimes, something just pops up,"
said professor Otto Schaden, field director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project
of the University of Memphis. He also who discovered the tomb.
"We can only find what they leave us, you know? When you're digging,
you never know what you're going to see next."
Schaden says the dig has many excited — not just because it's the
first tomb uncovered in the Valley since 1922, but because there are numerous
signs that suggest there may be a mummy still waiting in one of the dig's
two unopened coffins and that it may be connected to King Tut.
Breathing Life Back Into Valley of the Kings
Of the seven coffins discovered, two have yet to be opened and that's where
not just Schaden, but many in the archaeology community, are hoping they'll
find an important, perhaps royal mummy.
"One suggestion is that it may be the mummy of his wife, or [Egyptian
Queen] Nefertiti, or possibly Tut's mother Kia," said James Phillips,
professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois and an archaeologist
with the Field Museum in Chicago.
Though Phillips says he's relying on reports out of the region, his theories
are realistic possibilities considering the time period, where the tomb
was discovered, and the fact that experts have been in search of the mummies
of these women for 100 years.
"That would be huge," said Ken Nystrom, biological anthropologist
at Santa Clara University, and the show's presenter. "It would be incredible
to find another royal mummy in KV 63."
The jackpot in many ways would be if the tomb turned out to be that of Nefertiti,
the stunningly beautiful wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, another well-known leader
in ancient Egypt.
Tiny Coffin Not for Tiny Mummy
Although finding the mummified remains of a member of the royal family would
be a boon for Schaden and his team, it's perhaps more important to public
perception than it is to the archaeologists working in the Valley.
"The public perception is that the dig is a failure if there's no mummy,
and that's just not true," Nystrom said. "For archaeologists,
it's just as incredible to find a name, an inscription."
Nystrom says that's an important distinction because what gets the public
excited isn't always what gets archaeologists excited.
Still, it's the public's furor over finds like KV 63 that keep the money
flowing and the digs going.
Regardless of what the team may find hidden in the remaining coffins, they've
already made some exciting discoveries.
Among them is a doll-size coffin hidden beneath six pillows inside another,
larger coffin and decorated on the top and side with gold leaf.
"It's about 16 [inches to] 17 inches long," Schaden said. "It
was probably a funeral figurine — a mummiform figure that serves as
a possible substitute for the deceased."
In essence, if you were important enough to be buried in one of the Valley's
tombs, chances are you didn't want to be forced to do any kind of manual
labor in the afterlife. Mummiforms were believed to act as clones, doing
the work so royal members wouldn't have to get their hands dirty.
Patience Is a Virtue
All of the coffins found in the tomb must now be removed piece by piece,
because termites have been chewing on their wood for hundreds, if not thousands,
of years.
Each piece is meticulously gone over, and then conservators will pick one
or two of them to begin reassembling them.
Schaden says the Egyptian government would like to see everything removed,
because the position of the tomb could make it vulnerable to rains or flooding.
The process of moving fragments out of the tomb piece by piece, then waiting
for them to be repaired and catalogued, requires patience in the face of
thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime discoveries.
Schaden says the time his team takes means preserving these priceless artifacts
for years to come.
"We have some people that are so anxious that they're willing to crawl
back in there and take whatever is there," he said. "Never. I
don't know if it's a good point or a bad point, but I'm patient."
Mubarak Says German Firms Plan Egypt
Investment
DaimlerChrysler AG's Mercedes-Benz luxury car division and other German
automakers are planning to build a plant for spare-part production in Egypt,
said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
``We have learned today about a project by German companies including Mercedes
and others,'' Mubarak told reporters in Berlin after an hour of talks with
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. ``They want to start a large project in
Egypt for spare parts and other services,'' Mubarak said without elaborating.
Mubarak, who paid his second visit to Berlin within two months to attend
an Egyptian art exhibition in the German capital, said he expects Merkel
to visit Egypt ``soon'' to discuss details of the corporate project. DaimlerChrysler
had no immediate comment.
``We're expecting her in Egypt soon, so that Egypt will also become a centre
for spare-part production for large companies,'' Mubarak said. Merkel said
German-Egyptian ties are ``very close,'' without commenting on the planned
investment.
German exports to Egypt last year rose 20 percent to 1.7 billion euros from
1.42 billion euros in 2004, the German DIHK industry and trade chambers,
representing 3 million companies, said today in a statement. Imports rose
25 percent to 660 million euros from 527 million.
Egypt expects more Chinese investment
Egypt expects more Chinese investment as the country embraces a better environment
for foreign direct investment, Egyptian Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieddin
said on Wednesday.
Mohieddin made the remarks at a press conference after he co- launched a
workshop on Egypt's investment reform agenda with Richard Hecklinger, deputy
secretary-general of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD).
The minister particularly praised a latest Chinese investment of about 10
million U.S. dollars, which will help build a one-stop service building
in the Suez industrial zone to provide convenient services for foreign investors.
Mohieddin, who is scheduled to visit China later this year on the occasion
of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between
Egypt and China, said that Egypt welcomes more Chinese investment in various
sectors.
Based on a total of 3.3 billion dollars of foreign direct investment in
the first half of the current fiscal year, which began on July 1, 2005,
the minister said that his country is aimed at attracting a record high
foreign direct investment of 6 billion dollars by end of this fiscal year,
which will account for 5 percent of the country's GDP.
Hecklinger, the OECD official, said that Egypt has been pushing an aggressive
reform agenda in luring foreign investment and drawing experience from other
countries like China, which has been successful in attracting foreign direct
investment.
The two-day workshop was organized under an initiative sponsored by governments
in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with support by OECD member states.
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